Sensible 4 has been selected to join ESA BIC Finland as part of its new June 2026 cohort. The incubation will support our work on integrating Galileo High Accuracy Service into the DAWN autonomy stack, improving positioning reliability for heavy industrial vehicles operating in harsh off-road environments.
Sensible 4 develops retrofit autonomy and supervised-autonomy systems for heavy industrial vehicles in construction, mining, logistics, ports and defence. Our focus is to make autonomy deployable in the real world: harsh weather, changing sites, limited infrastructure, weak connectivity and mixed operating conditions.
Through ESA BIC Finland, we will work on a Galileo HAS-enabled navigation module for DAWN. Galileo HAS provides high-accuracy satellite-based positioning corrections, reducing dependency on local RTK base stations or expensive site-specific positioning infrastructure. For industrial autonomy, this matters: construction sites, quarries and logistics yards are dynamic environments where infrastructure is often temporary, costly or difficult to maintain.
The project will focus on integrating Galileo HAS into Sensible 4’s navigation pipeline, combining satellite-based positioning with onboard sensors and autonomy software. The goal is to improve positioning accuracy, availability and resilience in challenging environments, while supporting a more scalable deployment model for autonomous and supervised-autonomous industrial fleets.
For our customers, the benefit is highly practical. Better infrastructure-light positioning can reduce deployment complexity, shorten setup times and make autonomy easier to roll out across multiple sites. It also supports Sensible 4’s broader product strategy: moving from one-off engineering projects toward repeatable autonomy products that operators and partners can deploy more easily.
“Joining ESA BIC Finland is an important step for Sensible 4 because Galileo HAS can help us solve a very practical problem in industrial autonomy: reliable positioning without heavy local infrastructure. Our customers operate in changing, harsh environments where autonomy must be fast to deploy and easy to scale. Bringing European space technology into DAWN supports exactly that”, says Ahmed Abdelazim.
“For industrial autonomy to scale, it has to move from complex site-by-site engineering to repeatable products that operators can deploy with confidence. Galileo HAS is a strong example of how European space infrastructure can become a practical advantage for companies like Sensible 4 – improving reliability, reducing deployment complexity and strengthening Europe’s position in industrial AI”, says Matias Koski.
The ESA BIC Finland incubation gives Sensible 4 access to technical expertise, business support and the wider European space ecosystem. For us, this is an important step in combining European space technology with industrial robotics and autonomy – and bringing it into environments where it can create immediate operational value.
Sensible 4 joins ESA BIC Finland alongside Einbus, Farsight Space, Hytrade and Sinapse.
About Sensible 4
Sensible 4 develops retrofit autonomy and supervised-autonomy systems for heavy industrial vehicles operating in harsh off-road environments. The company’s DAWN autonomy stack combines perception, navigation, remote operation and vehicle control to help operators automate existing fleets instead of replacing them.
About ESA BIC Finland
ESA BIC Finland is part of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre network and supports Finnish startups using space technology, satellite data or space infrastructure in commercially relevant applications.